“Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs and the
Battle over America’s Drinking Water”

Monday, April 8, 2013

7 p.m. Young Auditorium

Elizabeth Royte’s writing on science and the environment has
appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, The New
York Times Magazine, and other national publications. A former Alicia
Patterson Foundation fellow and recipient of Bard College’s John Dewey Award
for Distinguished Public Service, Royte is a frequent contributor to the New
York Times Book Review and a contributing editor for OnEarth, where she
writes the blog The Royte Stuff. Her work is included in The Best
American Science Writing 2004, and her first book, The Tapir’s Morning
Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest, was a New York
Times Notable Book of the Year for 2001. Bottlemania was named one of Entertainment
Weekly’s 10 “Must Read” Nonfiction Books of 2008.